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Confidentiality and Your HIV Status
by: Virgin Islands Community Aids Resource & Education (VICARE)
Q.I have insurance through work. If I file an HIV ?related claim, can the insurance company tell my employer I?m HIV positive?
A.Your employer should not find out about your HIV status. The insurance code generally prohibits an insurance company from disclosing confidential information to your employer. However, the insurance company will probably disclose the claims history to your employer. This means your employer will be told what types of health conditions people have who are insured under the group policy? without being told who those specific people are. So if you work for a small company and your employer finds out that one person on the group health insurance plan has HIV, your employer may guess who that person is.
Q.I?m worried that my girlfriend may be HIV positive, but she refuses to get an HIV test. How can I make her get tested?
A.You can?t. Legally, she is not required to take an HIV test simply because she is in an intimate relationship. If she does not want to take an HIV test, she does not have to.
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